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99CHANTS 021LP
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$29.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 7/17/2026
Salva unfolds as a slow-moving sonic passage, suspended between stillness and transformation. Rooted in a deeply personal lineage, the album reimagines a long-standing family wound through the lens of myth, with the intention of altering its direction. Rather than recounting events, DIMA constructs a parallel narrative, one where sound becomes a means of reconfiguring what was once haunted. Emerging from an intuitive and studio-centered process, Salva is shaped through experimentation, co-creation, and temporal patience. Working primarily with the computer as her main instrument, DIMA assembles fragments of sound, plugins, sampled material, improvised gestures, and stems drawn from cinematic sources into a porous and evolving sonic architecture. Composition here is accumulative, guided by sensation. Within this framework, certain tracks introduce restrained pop sensibilities, glimpses of melody, song structure, and tonal clarity that surface briefly before dissolving back into the broader sonic language. Throughout the album, repetition and silence operate as narrative forces. Harmonics brush against dissonance, while space is treated as an active terrain. Many passages feel suspended, as if perpetually en route, evoking the sensation of being "on the way" without arrival. Movement unfolds in depth, inviting the listener to linger inside transitions, thresholds, and in-between states. Myth functions as both framework and catalyst. Drawing from ancient Western mythologies and archetypal figures, Salva doesn't illustrate these stories directly, it absorbs their symbolic charge, using them to shift perception and reclaim intuition as a valid form of knowledge. In doing so, DIMA treats sound as a narrative medium capable of holding emotional inheritance, ancestral echoes, and unresolved forces without fixing them into definitive meaning. The album moves fluidly between moments of tension and fragile openness. Granular textures dissolve into near-melodies, while distorted samples and subtle electronic interventions suggest the presence of something unstable. What emerges is a quiet reorientation, a sonic space where listening itself becomes an act of repair. Salva is a passage. A listening experience that invites the audience to inhabit uncertainty, to stay with sensation, and to consider how sound can hold stories that language alone can´t resolve.
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CTZ 045EP
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Before the explosion of the Poney EP (2001) (including the hit "La Rock 01"), Vitalic had a previous artistic life under the alias of Dima. Today, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is reactivating the Dima on his own label, Citizen Records. The Dima project originally blossomed in the thick of the 1990s rave scene in France; for the four tracks on Sounds Of Life, Dima employs the thick textures of Modal 008 and Arturia MatrixBrute synths. Using these modern machines gives the tracks a contemporary sound, while the structures of the compositions take us back twenty years.
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